Quotes by American Authors - Page 3407

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
Colleen Hoover
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!
Steve Maraboli
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
C. JoyBell C.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
Gordon B. Hinckley
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Hunter S. Thompson
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Stephanie Klein
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Khaled Hosseini
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
Jim Morrison
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
George Carlin
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
William Goldman
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
Woody Allen
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Lemony Snicket
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.
Chad Sugg
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Walt Disney Company
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Rick Riordan
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Stephen King
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.
John Green
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E B White
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Michael Cunningham
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Mitch Albom
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
George V. Higgins
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled Hosseini
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
John Green
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Allen Saunders
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.
Maria V. Snyder
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
Wayne W. Dyer
Something that is yours forever is never precious
Chaim Potok
I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you.
Ellen Hopkins
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
Kahlil Gibran
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I'm telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. and all your inside parts that they'd just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver--love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
Toni Morrison